…and it’s that time again – you know the rest, right?
#19, Pete Sessions
#20, Charlie Dent
#21, Cathy McMorris Rodgers
#22, Chris Smith
#23, Todd Akin
#24, Buck McKeon
#25, Kristi Noem
#26, Hal Rogers
#27, Lou Barletta (Two bonus selections: Boren and Ross)
#28, Paul Broun
#29, Mary Bono Mack
#30, David Dreier
#31, Marsha Blackburn (including backgrounder)
…so now it’s time to turn to #18 on my list of U.S. House Republicans
opposing the Affordable Care Act.
And I have to tell you that I really wanted to include Virginia Foxx of North Carolina higher up on the list, maybe closer to the top 10. However, this woman’s words and actions are so utterly repellant so frequently and across such a wide swath of topics that I thought I needed to address her sooner.
You see, today (here – and speaking of Aurora), she used the
recent mass shootings in a movie theater to plea for civility, more or less, while
the Repugs try to pass a regulatory “reform” bill on behalf of those poor, oppressed
“job creators” whose widdle feelins are just so, so hurt by that mean, nasty Kenyan
Muslim socialist in the White House that…well, gosh darn it…they just have to respond
by hoarding unprecedented amounts of wealth (here).
Continuing (as noted here), Foxx also dumped on students
who have run up debt to pursue a college degree (and, of course, she’s the
chair of the House Subcommittee on Higher Education…let’s see, “empathy,” “empathy”…I
just know I left that dictionary somewhere – oh, and is this really a surprise?).
She also added an “anti-gay” amendment to a House Defense Appropriations bill here,
and claimed here that the GOP “led the fight for civil rights” in the 1960s (uh, no).
Also, as Rachel Maddow points out here, Foxx said the health
care bill “masqueraded” as a tax increase, which of course is more of a threat
than al Qaeda as far as she concerned…
...in addition, Foxx mentioned a Thomas Sowell column about health
care reform, which apparently had nothing to do with HCR, but she prefaced it
by saying that Sowell was “also an African American,” or something (gee,
invoking Obama’s race just a little bit? Ya’ think?)…
…and if that isn’t an excuse for this video once more, I don’t
know what is (this woman is truly a horrible monster – how life forms in this country
can actually vote for her is something that I pray I never understand).
Update 8/20/12: Somehow, I forgot about this truly choice item from Foxx, calling Tucson shooter Jared Loughner the "liberal of liberals" (I'll just let that remark lie there and fester by itself without any further comment).
Update 5/19/21: Wonder if Foxx will be going near metal detectors again any time soon (here)?
Update 8/6/21: She would have been better off just keeping her mouth shut altogether (here).
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